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August 25, 2006, Friday

Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about lucrative consulting contracts landed by James Lee Witt, former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina misstated the location of Dardanelle,...

On the first business day since Hurricane Charley slammed into Charlotte County, the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Monday was looking past disaster relief to recovery. The agency opened its first disaster relief center, where homeowners...

Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich appointed a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to investigate a fire in a county building in Chicago that killed six people on Oct. 18. His announcement came just after John Stroger, the president of the...

October 24, 2003, Friday

The thinking goes like this: if terrorists attacked the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Westchester County, just north of New York, hundreds of thousands of people within a 10-mile radius would need to be evacuated. A state report on emergency...

JAMES LEE WITT has his own little booklet on what to do in a nuclear emergency. He has a special warning radio. And if it comes to it, he said, he is ready to high-tail it off his Arkansas farm if the authorities tell him to. ''I would listen to...